Satisfaction with life

Life satisfaction is the way in which people show their emotions and feelings (moods) and how they feel about their directions and options for the future. It is a measure of well-being and may be assessed in terms of mood, satisfaction with relations with others and with achieved goals, self-concepts, and self-perceived ability to cope with daily life. It is having a favorable attitude of one's life rather than an assessment of current feelings. Life satisfaction has been measured in relation to economic standing, amount of education, experiences, and residence, as well as many other topics.

Life satisfaction is a key part of subjective wellbeing (SWB).

One of the most studied concepts of personality is the big five factor model. This model illustrates what these researchers believed to be the building blocks of individuals personality. The model deals with dimensions of openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. In a research carried out by Deneve and Cooper in 1998, multiple studies were analyzed and certain personality questionnaires that linked subjective well-being (SWB) and personality measures. They found that neuroticism was the strongest predictor of life satisfaction. Neuroticism is linked as well to people who have difficulty making up their mind, and is also common in people who suffer from mental illness. The personality factor 'openness to experience' is also correlated equally to life satisfaction although in a positive way. Amongst other personality traits chronotype has been consequently related to life satisfaction; morning-oriented people (larks) showed higher life satisfaction than evening-oriented individuals (owls).

Being a person who is seen to socialize more with others can contribute to someone’s overall well being. Social support via others has been shown to affect the well-being of adults through its effect on the overall health of those individuals. Therefore, people who tend to communicate, and who are considered to be more open to others would have a higher-level of life satisfaction.

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